I've recently qualified as a junior doctor and I'm supposed to start working in a hospital next week. I've suffered from quite severe depression in the past 2 years, for which I've been seeing a psychiatrist and I am on medication. I've also been struggling with self harm and I've taken two small overdoses as well in the past 2 years.
My depression is resolving and I'm a lot better than I was. I still struggle with the self harm, but I don't have any suicidal thoughts anymore.
Anyway, I got a letter in today from the hospital I'll be working in, asking me to sign a release form to let them have access to my records and to ask for a report from my psychiatrist to "assess my fitness to work" in the hospital. I'm really worried about them knowing the details of my illness, particularly the overdoses and the self harm.
It says I can refuse to let them have access to my records, but what happens then? Can they insist on seeing them? What should I do?
2006-07-26
03:05:26
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Jen
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